Native American agriculture reading list
I've
focused on the southeast and midwest in this lunchtime series because
I'm interested in what's going on in my own neck of the woods. If
you want to learn more about your part of the country, you might like
to check out some of the texts I used in my research. Here's
an annotated bibliography to get you started.
Doolittle, W.E.
2002. Cultivated
Landscapes of Native North America. Oxford University Press.
Heilman, J.M., M.C.
Lileas, and C.A. Turnbow. 1988. A History
of 17 Years of Excavation and Reconstruction --- A Chronicle of 12th
Century Human Values and the Built Environment. Volume 1. The
Dayton Museum of Natural History, Dayton, OH.
Lentz, D.L. 2000.
Imperfect
Balance: Landscape Transformations in the Precolumbian Americas. Columbia University
Press.
Scarry, C.M.
1993. Foraging
and Farming in the Eastern Woodlands. University Press of Florida.
And, of course, if
you're completely new to the topic and want to learn
a bit more about what North and South America looked like before
European contact, I highly recommend the mainstream books 1491, Indian Givers, and Guns,
Germs, and Steel.
What books do you think should go on the reading list of those
interested in Native American agriculture?
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About us: Anna Hess and Mark Hamilton spent over a decade living self-sufficiently in the mountains of Virginia before moving north to start over from scratch in the foothills of Ohio. They've experimented with permaculture, no-till gardening, trailersteading, home-based microbusinesses and much more, writing about their adventures in both blogs and books.
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